Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The attorney general doesn't favor one method or the other, he favors the death penalty. — Bob Butterworth Copy Share Image
The victims of crime have been transformed into a group oppressively burdened by a system designed to protect them. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
For me the hardest struggle in my faith life was the Catholic Church is against the death penalty. — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that the most heinous crimes warrant the death penalty. — Chris Sununu Copy Share Image
I support guns and I support the death penalty. Half of my interviews are convincing liberals they're not liberal. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
I believe that inside many Americans lies certain uneasiness about capital punishment. — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
My main area of activism is the death penalty, and it will continue to be once this crisis is over with. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
In Texas, we have the death penalty, and we use it. That's right. If you come to Texas and kill somebody, we… — Ron White Copy Share Image
“There were eleven votes for "guilty." It's not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die… — Reginald Rose Copy Share Image
When the state executes a member of the human family, it declares that person worthless, without possibility of redemption. As Christians, we… — Doug Davidson Copy Share Image
Government ... can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
You believe an eye for an eye until you are put in that situation. If they kill those guys, it really doesn't… — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
I will work hard to try to get rid of the death penalty. If I could do that, with all the other… — Ernie Chambers Copy Share Image
The death penalty confronts us with a penetrating moral question: Can even the monstrous crimes of those who are condemned to death… — Blase J. Cupich Copy Share Image
In Alabama this would be a capital case, and if we don't get justice in Australia we're going to pursue the death… — Troy King Copy Share Image
Ajamu Baraka is a human rights advocate and an international human rights advocate, who's been defending racial justice, economic justice, worker justice,… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
It's absolutely clear that whatever cruel and unusual punishments may - may mean with regard to future things, such as death by… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
“Imagine the thoughts of serial killer and mutilator Jeffrey Dahmer when he ended up in prison. He felt great remorse, which he… — Roy Ratcliff Copy Share Image
The time will come when all people will view with horror light way in which society and its courts of law now… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
I found that the death penalty - and I'm not a hot-button issue person, you know, I'm not a single issue person … — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
I personally have always voted for the death penalty because I believe that people who go out prepared to take the lives… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Family and friends don't deserve to lose a family member because someone killed them for no reason. If the person is caught.… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
A solemn day. Barring a stay by Sup Ct, & with my final nod, Utah will use most extreme power & execute… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of the death penalty. At some level I think killing is wrong, but I don't have sympathy for… — Peter Moskos Copy Share Image
From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. For more than 20 years I have endeavored--indeed,… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
“[T]here are some human rights that are so deep that we can't negotiate them away. I mean people do heinous, terrible things.… — Sister Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
“Walter made me understand why we have to reform a system of criminal justice that continues to treat people better if they… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Im from Texas. In Texas we have the death penalty and we USE IT! Thats right¦ if you come to Texas and… — Ron White Copy Share Image
“A sentence which might bear in mind that our great struggle is that of fear, and that if a man has killed… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“Similarly, we can all agree that science's entitlement to advise us on moral values is problematic, to say the least. but does… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“So, once more, the question is: Does the Bible forbid homosexual behavior? Well, I’ve already said that it does. The Bible is… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
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